Location: Sherway Drive
Date photo taken: 18 June 2022
This humble looking bridge spans the Etobicoke Creek, just north of the QEW. It sits in parkland, connecting the leafy neighbourhood of Sherway in Mississauga to Etobicoke Valley Park North in Toronto and its scale seems perfectly suited to the pedestrian traffic it now serves. When it was built in 1909 however it was part of Middle Road, an important transportation corridor connecting the former counties of York and Peel regions. Middle Road was eventually absorbed by the new highway in the 1930s, but the bridge still remains. Both Mississauga and Etobicoke have recognized their ends of the bridge for its heritage value, and the plaque visible at the bottom right declares the bridge a National Historic Civil Engineering Site. It states that the Middle Road bridge was the first reinforced concrete arch-truss bridge in North America.
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